al_get_haptic_gain(3alleg5)

✨ al_get_haptic_gain — Allegro 5 API ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Allegro 5 API manual — the one literally named al_get_haptic_gain(3alleg5) — and it's honestly giving "small function, big vibes" 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

double al_get_haptic_gain(ALLEGRO_HAPTIC *hap)

like. that's it. that's the whole signature. short king behavior 👑

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So what does this lil function do? It returns the current gain of the device. And what even is gain, you ask? Okay so think of it like volume, but for sound — except it's haptics. It's as if every single effect's intensity gets multiplied by it. Yes literally every effect. Multiplied. 🫶

Gain is a value between 0.0 and 1.0. No more, no less, that's the range, periodt.

⚠️ BUT — and this is the important part, so don't scroll past — this only works correctly if al_get_haptic_capabilities(3alleg5) returns a value that has ALLEGRO_HAPTIC_GAIN(3alleg5) ALLEGRO_HAPTIC_CONSTANTS(3alleg5) set. 💅

And if that is not set? Then this function will just simply return 1.0 and all effects will be played without any gain influence whatsoever. Like, gain is just not a thing here, bestie. It's not participating. 🙈

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⭐ SINCE ⭐

5.1.8 — so it's been around a minute, no cap.

💀 [Unstable API]: Perhaps could be simplified due to limited support for all the exposed features across all of the platforms. Awaiting feedback from users.

(not me reading that and going "okay so it might change, don't get too attached" 😭 — that's literally what it's saying tho, it's the unstable corner of the API and they're waiting on y'all to tell them how it's going)

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and that's the whole page, babe — every flag, every number, every caveat, all accounted for 🦋

this was the Allegro reference manual talking, page al_get_haptic_gain(3alleg5), and yes the header and footer said the same thing twice so we folded that in here instead. mwah 💋 stay haptic, stay iconic, slay ✨🎀